taxes
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Rising from the ashes, a Buffalo suburb ends its dependence on coal
Tonawanda, New York, provides a blueprint for other struggling post-industrial communities.
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The federal government wants to pay for your electric bicycle
Electric bikes and electric motorcycles are awesome. They help you go up hills. They help you reach your destination with a minimum of armpit sweat. And they do this while dumping less carbon into atmosphere than their gas-powered equivalents. (Yes, there is such thing as a gas-powered bicycle. Yah. It’s stupid. We know.) The only […]
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Republicans put a deadline on Keystone XL, surprising nobody
As predicted, Republicans in the House have grudgingly allowed a two-month extension on the payroll tax holiday, on the condition that they can impose a deadline on Keystone XL pipeline approval. President Obama had postponed approval for a year, based on evidence that the environmental analysis was flawed, but Republicans want a decision NOW NOW […]
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Tax expenditures: a boring thing you should be outraged about
In budget terms, tax expenditures may look the same as simple government spending, but the political differences are enormously important.
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We can save $78 billion by ending oil and gas subsidies
We could save $78 billion by ending oil and gas subsidies.
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Is it enough to tax junk food and subsidize good food?
The New York Times' Mark Bittman is right that we need to tax junk food and make healthy food more affordable. But we also need to quash junk-food advertising.
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Let’s point and laugh at the United States’ weeny little pollution taxes
Awwwwww, look at the teeny little bar graph representing U.S. pollution taxes! I bet everybody tells the U.S. it's "average," but it's clearly not. Don't worry, America; it's not how big it is, it's what you do with it! And we … use it to fund wars, I guess?
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Rep. Earl Blumenauer wants better tax benefits for bike, transit commuters
Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.)Photo: Thomas Le NgoWhat is a sensible political reaction to rising gas prices? Standing around shouting “Drill, baby, drill”? Or offering material support to commuters who increasingly opt for public transportation or biking to work? Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.), who often sports a bike pin in his lapel (and rides a bike […]
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What would happen if Americans had a say in how their tax money is spent?
Lemme tell you …How would America change if taxpayers were allowed to specify how their tax money were spent? That fascinating question (no, really, it’s fascinating!) is explored in a piece by Cait Lamberton in the latest issue of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas. Side note: if you don’t read Democracy, you really should bookmark […]